If you’re in the Bay Area in August and are interested in homemade zines, be sure to put this event on your radar. The annual SF Zine Fest is a “free two-day conference for independent and underground publishing. Exhibitors come from all over the West Coast, and while the focus is on zines, all walks of DIY life are represented — comics, arts and crafts, literary presses, and more.” Their special guest this year is Xeric Award-winning cartoonist Andy Hartzell. If you’ve got something you want to share as an exhibitor, now’s the time to get your application in. Everything you need to know is on their site.
I know that there are lots of instructables out there that explain things about the PSP but mine just groups them all into one place. I will at the end give credit to all the people that contributed in one way or an other.
Contents of this include:
- Exploring the potential and familiarizing yours…
By way of fellow papercraft enthusiast Cory Doctorow comes images of this incredible castle, posted on Tokyobling. Tokyobling explains:
I had the immense opportunity to see this wonderful paper craft art installation by a genius of the name of Wataru Itou, a young student of a major art university here in Tokyo. The installation is hand made over four years of hard work, complete with electrical lights and a moving train, all made of paper! Clearly, this man must have created one of the most stunning examples of Paper Craft in the world? At the exhibition you will also have the chance to see a video showing Mr. Itou at work in his studio, cutting and folding piece by piece. The exhibition is called Umi no Ue no Oshiro (A Castle On the Ocean ), 海の上のお城. It is exhibited at Uminohotaru, a place which in itself is a major attraction: a service area in the middle of the ocean, right between Tokyo City and Chiba Prefecture.
If you have some top secret into that needs to hide in plain sight have a look at this USB Cigar. When the cigar is together there is no sign that it has been hacked!
"Materials:
A thick cigar
An USB flash disk of small dimensions
Some wire, 2 x LEDs (red!), 1 x 10K resistor
Wood primer
Some tape
A short […]
Taking advantage of the increased resolution and new autofocus capabilities of the iPhone 3GS to shoot close-up stills has just gotten a little easier thanks to Derrick Story’s DIY Copy Stand for the iPhone 3GS. Utilizing a commodity storage container from the local mercantile and repurposing the iPhone’s packaging Derrick has created an easy to assemble positioning apparatus that doubles as a light diffuser.
If you’ve ever tried close-up work with the iPhone, you know you have two challenges. The first is holding the camera steady enough to avoid camera shake. The second is getting the plane of the camera parallel to the plane of the subject to avoid distortion. This little device helps with both, plus diffuses the light for a more flattering rendering.
Just a reminder about our Twitter Giveaway that’s going on this week. Three lucky CRAFT Twitter followers will win a CRAFT T-Shirt. Start following us here @craft.
We’ll announce the winner next Monday, July 6th. Good luck!
Alexis at My Mama Made It can whip up almost anything it seems in a snap. I love this girl’s bubble dress tutorial for it’s adorable shape and the fun polka dot fabric. Plus who can resist a little girl stopping to smell the flowers?
Los Angeles art gallery SolwayJones is currently showing a collection of unique acoustic and electronic musical instruments by Reed Ghazala, Nam June Paik and others. Definitely worth checking out if you’re in the area - press release + photos on the gallery’s site. [via GetLoFi]
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I know that there are lots of instructables out there that explain things about the PSP but mine just groups them all into one place. I will at the end give credit to all the people that contributed in one way or an other.
